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Michigan Certifies Election Results, Declaring Biden Winner In New Blow To Trump
Michigan’s Board of Canvassers certified the state’s election results on Monday, declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the state and handing President Donald Trump an official loss despite his unprecedented attempts to somehow negate a 154,000-vote chasm.
Three of the board’s four members voted to certify the results, with one of its two Republican members, Norman Shinkle, abstaining. Shinkle last week cited debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines in an interview with The Washington Post and said he was leaning toward opposing certification.
Shinkle’s qualms echoed baseless conspiracies the president and his allies have spouted continuously since the Nov. 3 election. But Monday’s certification effectively awards Biden Michigan’s 16 electoral votes ― one of his key victories in his defeat of Trump.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) hailed the board’s vote just moments after it took place in front of a virtual crowd of thousands.
“The people of Michigan have spoken,” she said in a statement. “President-elect Biden won the State of Michigan by more than 154,000 votes, and he will be our next president on January 20th. … Now, it’s time to put this election behind us and come together as a state to defeat our common enemy: COVID-19.”
The board’s action is yet another blow to the president’s assault on the results of the 2020 election after a series of defeats in the courts. Georgia, a key battleground state that Biden won by a bit less than 13,000 voters, certified its results last week. And in Pennsylvania, which Biden won by more than 81,000 votes, the certification process is underway.
Inbox: Statement from @GovWhitmer on board of canvassers vote: "I commend the three members of the State Board of Canvassers who voted to follow the law and certify the 2020 election results today." pic.twitter.com/i1oSuJ1jZi
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) November 23, 2020
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